Puerto Rican Police Clash With Workers Protesting Pension Cuts
- Federal board is seeking benefit reductions of 10 percent
- Thousands rally in San Juan, marching toward panel’s office
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Puerto Rico demonstrators battled police on San Juan’s streets as they marched against proposed cuts to retirement benefits and looser labor laws as the bankrupt island seeks to reduce $74 billion of debt.
Thousands of protesters came out to contest retirement-plan changes that a federal board overseeing the bankrupt commonwealth’s finances says would help end years of overspending as it also seeks concessions from bondholders.